To develop a website which enable users to search the Tesco on-line grocery catalog and display the results priced in bitcoins using the real time exchange rate obtained from the Bittylicious Bitcoin exchange.
Link to user stories:
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Install Node/NPM (https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
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Clone this project
npm install from within the project root directory
open index.html
(or node tescoin.js to start on Express server and visit localhost:5000 in your browser)
heroku create <your app name>
git push heroku master
heroku open
- Tesco Labs online grocery store API requires users to:
- have registered as a developer and registered their app
- have a Tesco grocery account
- Link to developer registration is:
- The Tesco API requires the user to obtain a Tesco API session key. You need to generate a session before you can use Tescoin. Follow the example on the Tesco login WIKI (you can input the final URL directly into your browser address bar):
- Open up Tescoin and input your session key
- Search for groceries on Tescoin
- Get up-to-the-minute prices served by Tesco and Bittylicious
- Full details of how to use the Tesco Labs API are given here:
